AT&T Will Invest $1 Billion in Global Expansion

PUB. DATE

March 2008

SOURCE

Red Herring;3/5/2008, p6

SOURCE TYPE

Trade Publication

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article reports on the global expansion of AT&T worth $1 billion. The U.S. phone company will build four undersea cables and expand its network services. The company will initially offer virtual private local area networks over Ethernet in 14 cities in Europe and Asia and will have a presence in 29 countries by the end of 2008. AT&T will also build a data center in the Indian software hub of Bangalore, India.

ACCESSION #

36876074

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